Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: The regiment that made headlines across the world
IN this series on Scotland’s famous regiments we have now reached one of the most renowned regiments in Scottish military history, the Argyll and…
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IN this series on Scotland’s famous regiments we have now reached one of the most renowned regiments in Scottish military history, the Argyll and…
DUE to public demand I have decided to extend this continuing series of columns about Scotland’s most famous regiments. So far the series has been…
The deep purple ribbon is as brightly coloured today as it was when it was carefully threaded through the delicate lattice pattern snipped into a notebook page more than a century ago. Taking care to keep it spotlessly clean, Private George Beveridge of A Company, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, sat down in the battle-scarred fields of France to write to his beloved Gertie. It was July 2, 1916 – the second day of the Battle of the Somme – and he had already served two years away from his sweetheart. “Accept my best love and heaps of kisses,” he wrote, attachin...
Decorated veteran Roy Vickerman passed away in his sleep last week after being unable to shake a cough following a chest infection. He was set to marry his childhood sweetheart Nora Jackson.